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Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Photos of our Day at the ZOO!
What an AWESOME day we had at the Roger Williams Zoo in Rhode Island! The weather couldn't have been more perfect: sunny, slight breeze, warm but not hot.
We had a great group of kids: ours and the Rodgers family. It is neat how our two families really seem to merge together so well. Nathalie and Hannah love to chase William. Grace and Rachel are, of course, best friends and Samantha and Dianna are friends. Gordon and Sam share a love of all things cars and both grew up in about the same area. Phyllis and I share a lot of the same values and I forsee a homeschooling future for her! Welcome to the vortex, Phyllis!
We got to the zoo bright and early, around 9:30. We checked out our maps and developed a strategy. We were fortunate that many of the animals were outside and easily visible. We even got to see an anteater! Every other time we have been to a zoo the anteaters have always been indoors and invisible. We also saw a crazy crane that was pecking at it's own reflection but with his head turned upside down! We saw some really cool sheep that looked like goats and Rachel got to see her snow leopard.
We were kind of disappointed at the number of exhibits that were not open for various reasons. But we did get to visit the butterfly exhibit before it was open! They were filming commercials for it and asked our girls (and William) to walk through so they could film and tape their reactions! Because it was a commercial the girls got to interact more with the butterfly keeper and some of the girls got to hold and touch butterflies. They were able to see a butterfly just hatched from it's coccoon!
We had such a lovely time! We arrived home around 4:30, just in time to milk and feed the animals, eat a quick sandwich and run off again to decorate the parade float!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Off to the ZOO
We are off to the zoo tomorrow morning. I was shocked about a month ago when the two younger girls came home with permission slips for the Roger Williams Zoo (or as Samantha calls it the Woger Rillums Zoo!) requiring $22 each for the bus and the zoo tickets! I did a quick check online and found that with our AAA discount we could get the whole family in for $39!
I had spoken to Rachel's best friend's mom and she agreed that the price was rather steep and so we invited them to go along with us. I also discovered that our library has zoo passes that will give us 50% off 4 tickets.
I tried to reserve that pass a few weeks ago but was informed that the earliest I could reserve it was one week before the date. I had forgotten about it until this past Monday. I went in to the library and upon requesting the pass discovered that the woman in front of me had just reserved the last one! Oh well, I thought, we still have the AAA discount.
Today we were at the library when I was asked to go upstairs by one of the librarians. She had seen my van in the driveway and so knew we were around. A zoo pass had just been returned and she wanted to make sure we got it! I love the librarians at our library!
So tomorrow as soon as Sam gets home from the firehouse, we and the Rodgers family will be heading off to the zoo. We have a picnic lunch packed with bread, cheese, ham, pickles, twizzlers, and lemonade. I even splurged and bought potato chips! I have downloaded all the photos off my camera so we have plenty of room for pictures.
Rachel wants a picture of her standing in front of a leopard for her cube project. I have explained to Samantha that I doubt this zoo will have a Przewalski's horse (her cube project animal). She didn't feel that was very fair. She got my standard response: "Life's not fair, kid."
The weather appears to be cooperating for tomorrow. It should be a great day. After we get home it will be animal care and a quick trip over to the Tollmann's to decorate our 4H club's float for the Memorial Day Parade!
I had spoken to Rachel's best friend's mom and she agreed that the price was rather steep and so we invited them to go along with us. I also discovered that our library has zoo passes that will give us 50% off 4 tickets.
I tried to reserve that pass a few weeks ago but was informed that the earliest I could reserve it was one week before the date. I had forgotten about it until this past Monday. I went in to the library and upon requesting the pass discovered that the woman in front of me had just reserved the last one! Oh well, I thought, we still have the AAA discount.
Today we were at the library when I was asked to go upstairs by one of the librarians. She had seen my van in the driveway and so knew we were around. A zoo pass had just been returned and she wanted to make sure we got it! I love the librarians at our library!
So tomorrow as soon as Sam gets home from the firehouse, we and the Rodgers family will be heading off to the zoo. We have a picnic lunch packed with bread, cheese, ham, pickles, twizzlers, and lemonade. I even splurged and bought potato chips! I have downloaded all the photos off my camera so we have plenty of room for pictures.
Rachel wants a picture of her standing in front of a leopard for her cube project. I have explained to Samantha that I doubt this zoo will have a Przewalski's horse (her cube project animal). She didn't feel that was very fair. She got my standard response: "Life's not fair, kid."
The weather appears to be cooperating for tomorrow. It should be a great day. After we get home it will be animal care and a quick trip over to the Tollmann's to decorate our 4H club's float for the Memorial Day Parade!
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